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ONE Family Story Woven In Darkwater Creek, Nebraska is the setting for my novels, a fictional town along the Republican River in Nebraska, in Franklin County, my parents’ home. The house on my grandparents’ farm… Read More

THREE separate references to earlier (pre-1935) Republican River floods . . . . . . from Native lore and local retelling, as recorded by Follansbee and Spiegel in 1937: “For the Republican River, as… Read More

FOUR 1935 Republican River Valley Flood statistics1 110 people died in the flood, some whose bodies were never recovered. 20,593 head of livestock were lost. The force of the water destroyed nearly 275,000 of farmland… Read More

FIVE HARROWING DAYS . . . in history, as the 1935 Republican River Flood disaster unfolded, traveling from west to east:1 Intense rainfall in Eastern Colorado on May 30, 1935, set the flood in… Read More

It’s Easier That Way, Right? We’ve all said it. I’d rather forget the whole thing. And it’s true. Given the choice, we’d rather leave behind the unfortunate twists, the impulsive decisions, and the sad endings.… Read More

Welcome to Delbert’s Weir, a great YA survival story by Carmen Peone Today I have the great pleasure of introducing a Women Writing the West® member and author friend, Carmen Peone, and her novel Delbert’s Weir, a… Read More

Náápiikoan Winter by Alethea Williams When one nation strives to dominate another for economic gain, more than money is at stake. Cultures, lives, passions, traditions and human needs also fall in sacrifice. This realization resonates… Read More

A Change in the Weather You could say it’s a new kind of rain. Or seven kinds, to be clear. Imagining, researching, crafting and editing. Three years of cultivating Seven Kinds of Rain are about to bear… Read More